André Aciman

Anna rakkaudelle mahdollisuusKutsu minua nimelläsi, elokuvana Call me By Your Name, lumosi lukijat ja katsojat kautta maailman. Nyt André Aciman palaa rakastettujen henkilöidensä pariin kirjassa Etsi minut.Etsi minut kertoo herkällä otteella suuren rakkauden elämää mullistavasta vaikutuksesta Elion, Oliverin ja Elion isän Samuelin elämässä. Samuel, eronnut mies, istuu junassa matkalla Roomaan tapaamaan poikaansa Eliota. Kun kaikki elämässä ja rakkaudessa on jo ohi, kohtalo pääsee yllättämään hänet. Vuosia myöhemmin Elio, ammatiltaan klassinen pianisti, kohtaa sattumalta ihmisen, josta voisi tulla hyvin tärkeä. Voiko kukaan kuitenkaan olla yhtä tärkeä kuin Oliver? New Yorkissa Oliver pysähtyy pohtimaan elämäänsä. Ovatko helpot valinnat johdattaneet häntä harhaan, ja onko vielä mahdollista päättää toisin? Uskaltaisiko hän vielä etsiä Elion ja rakkauden?André Aciman (s. 1951) on yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija ja kirjallisuuden professori, joka kasvoi ranskankielisessä perheessä Egyptissä ja Italiassa ja muutti Yhdysvaltoihin aikuisuuden kynnyksellä. Hän opettaa ranskalaista kirjallisuutta ja luovaa kirjoittamista New York City Universityssä. Kaunokirjallisuuden lisäksi hän on kirjoittanut palkitun muistelmateoksen Out of Egypt. Kutsu minua nimelläsi on hänen tunnetuin romaaninsa.

Elio tilbringer sommeren sammen med foreldrene i et gammelt hus på den italienske rivieraen. Der slumrer han i varmen, leser, spiller piano, flørter med jentene. Men da familiens sommergjest Oliver kommer, oppstår det følelser i Elio som han ikke er forberedt på, og de to begir seg ut på et sommereventyr de aldri vil glemme.Og ditt navn er mitt er en fortelling om uventet, intens kjærlighet uavhengig av kjønn og alder. Sanselig og utilslørt skildrer Andre Aciman hva som kan skje mellom to mennesker som berører hverandre på det dypeste – og hvordan kompliserte følelser også er de enkleste. André Aciman er blitt kalt en begjærets grammatiker og en følsomhetens mester. Han har skrevet en rekke bøker, hvorav Og ditt navn er mitt (Call Me by Your Name) er den mest kjente. Filmen basert på boken kom i 2017 og fikk umiddelbart kultstatus. Boken har solgt i 750 000 eksemplarer i USA og er utgitt på over 30 språk.«Forfriskende gode romanpersoner … Romanen bak filmen Call Me by Your Name er minst like verdifull som filmatiseringen … De er vare skikkelser, samtidig nysgjerrige. De er sultne på livet på en måte få romanpersoner jeg kjenner fra den norske samtidslitteraturen, er.… disse to elskerne fortjener både hverandres og leserens beundring.» Kenneth Moe, Aftenposten«Det skjebnesvangre kjærlighetsmøtet mellom Elio og Oliver, en sommer ved den italienske rivieraen, er så utsøkt skildret at resten av verden stopper opp.» Ellen Sofie Lauritzen, Dagens Næringsliv“Denne boken er utrolig. Den menneskeliggjør kjærligheten på en virkelig mektig, vakker måte.» Time Out London“Praktfull … Denne fremragende debutromanen burde gå rett inn i kanon over store kjærlighetsromaner for alle» The Washington Post Book World“Denne romanen er hot … en usedvanlig vakker bok.» The New York Times Book Review«Acimans sanselige prosa vil treffe strenger hos alle lesere som husker tenåringskjærlighetens smertefulle intensitet – det vil si de fleste av oss.» Sunday Telegraph«Poetisk og dypt vakker.» Tatler«Like mye en fortelling om et oppdaget paradis som et tapt paradis … Enestående.» New York Times«En klagesang, en feiring, en meditasjon over lidenskapens sannhet som er nyansert og universell.» The Observer«André Acimans setninger er en komposisjon, en note etter den andre, passasjene og linjene fester seg i hukommelsen på samme måte som en sang som har tålt tidens tann.» Paper Magazine«En enestående utforskning av lengsel … Det er oppsiktsvekkende at en så forfriskende usentimental roman når en slik emosjonell dybde.» O, The Oprah Magazine«En fantastisk kjærlighetshistorie … Hver setning, hver smerte, hver eneste berusende følelse i denne vakre romanen kjennes sann.» The Seattle Times

Anna rakkaudelle mahdollisuusKutsu minua nimelläsi, elokuvana Call me By Your Name, lumosi lukijat ja katsojat kautta maailman. Nyt André Aciman palaa rakastettujen henkilöidensä pariin kirjassa Etsi minut.Etsi minut kertoo herkällä otteella suuren rakkauden elämää mullistavasta vaikutuksesta Elion, Oliverin ja Elion isän Samuelin elämässä. Samuel, eronnut mies, istuu junassa matkalla Roomaan tapaamaan poikaansa Eliota. Kun kaikki elämässä ja rakkaudessa on jo ohi, kohtalo pääsee yllättämään hänet. Vuosia myöhemmin Elio, ammatiltaan klassinen pianisti, kohtaa sattumalta ihmisen, josta voisi tulla hyvin tärkeä. Voiko kukaan kuitenkaan olla yhtä tärkeä kuin Oliver? New Yorkissa Oliver pysähtyy pohtimaan elämäänsä. Ovatko helpot valinnat johdattaneet häntä harhaan, ja onko vielä mahdollista päättää toisin? Uskaltaisiko hän vielä etsiä Elion ja rakkauden?André Aciman (s. 1951) on yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija ja kirjallisuuden professori, joka kasvoi ranskankielisessä perheessä Egyptissä ja Italiassa ja muutti Yhdysvaltoihin aikuisuuden kynnyksellä. Hän opettaa ranskalaista kirjallisuutta ja luovaa kirjoittamista New York City Universityssä. Kaunokirjallisuuden lisäksi hän on kirjoittanut palkitun muistelmateoksen Out of Egypt. Kutsu minua nimelläsi on hänen tunnetuin romaaninsa.

Sjuttonårige Elios pappa är professor i filosofi och varje sommar bjuder han in en ung forskare till familjens sommarhus vid den italienska rivieran för att bo och arbeta där under sex veckor. Sommarens gäst heter Oliver, en attraktiv och världsvan amerikan i tjugofemårsåldern. Trots att Elio först uppfattar Oliver som ytlig och onåbar, dras han motståndslöst till honom och snart har en laddad kärleksaffär tagit sin början.

Eto istorija o probuzhdajuschejsja chuvstvennosti i pervoj ljubvi. Elio provodit beskonechnye zharkie dni na ville v Italii. Pokhody na pljazh, chtenie, muzyka, intellektualnye besedy s aspirantami ottsa - vse eto povtorjaetsja iz goda v god. No v eto leto na villu priezzhaet molodoj uchenyj Oliver, vstrecha s kotorym menjaet zhizn Elio navsegda... Bestseller po versii The New York Times, USA Today i Los Angeles Times. Laureat prestizhnoj premii Lambda Literary Award 2017. Kniga goda po versii The New York Times i The Washington Post. Po knigi vyshel film, poluchivshij "Oskar" za luchshij stsenarij, v kotorom sygrali Armi Khammer i Timoti Shalame. Bolee 100 000 vysokikh otsenok i 12 000 khvalebnykh otzyvov na Goodreads.

I opfølgeren til Call Me by Your Name møder vi atter nogle af de personer, vi kender så godt, nu 25 år senere. Elios far, Samuel, er fraskilt og på vej til Rom for at besøge Elio, der nu er en anerkendt klassisk pianist. I toget falder han i snak med den unge Miranda, et tilfældigt møde der bliver fuldkommen livsomvæltende. Elio flytter til Paris, hvor han indleder en intens affære, der ligeledes får afgørende konsekvenser, mens Oliver, der nu underviser på et universitet i New England og har sønner, der snart er voksne, fanger sig selv i at overveje et besøg i Europa. Find mig er en bevægende udforskning af kærligheden i alle dens omskiftelige former og udtryk, der på smukkeste vis minder os om at ægte kærlighed aldrig dør ud.

A New York Times BestsellerIn this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting. No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than Andr Aciman's haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as "a love letter, an invocation . . . an exceptionally beautiful book" (Stacey D'Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review). Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Award-winning film starring Timoth e Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student with whom he falls in love. In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami's plans and changes his life forever. Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic. Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional nuances that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies.

Set in Alexandria, this classic and much-loved memoir chronicles the exploits of Andre Aciman's colourful Sephardic Jewish family from its arrival in Egypt at the turn of the century to its forced departure three generations later. Aciman tells a story of childhood innocence, of intricate family life and the pain of exile from a place one loves. His memories are adorned with eccentric characters: mysterious Uncle Vili - soldier, salesman, Italian Fascist and British spy; the two grandmothers, the Princess and the Saint, who gossip in six different languages; his melancholy Aunt Flora who warns that Jews lose everything 'at least twice in their lives'; and his father, who considers converting to Islam in order to stay in Alexandria. Elegant, beautifully-written, moving and witty, "Out of Egypt" bridges cultures and generations and provides a moving portrait of a by-gone world.

Sjuttonårige Elios pappa är professor i filosofi och varje sommar bjuder han in en ung forskare till familjens sommarhus vid den italienska rivieran för att bo och arbeta där under sex veckor. Sommarens gäst heter Oliver, en attraktiv och världsvan amerikan i tjugofemårsåldern. Trots att Elio först uppfattar Oliver som ytlig och onåbar, dras han motståndslöst till honom och snart har en laddad kärleksaffär tagit sin början. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME är en intensiv berättelse om den första stora förälskelsen, om sexuellt uppvaknande och om att famla i sökandet efter sin identitet. Det är också berättelsen om en het och vibrerande sommar och hur minnena av den för alltid stannar kvar. Filmatiseringen av boken nominerades till en Oscar för bästa film.

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR'[A] mesmerizing portrait of a now vanished world.' NEW YORK TIMES'A dazzling evocation of a time and a place.' TELEGRAPH'Aciman. . . recalls with a magical sensibility streaked with antic humoUr.' PUBLISHERS WEEKLYAciman's story of Alexandria is the story of his own family, a Jewish family with Italian and Turkish roots that tied its future to Egypt and made its home there for three generations, only to find itself peremptorily expelled by the government in the early 1960s. It is the story of a fractious clan of dreamers and con men and the emotional price they would pay for exile, the story of a young boy's coming of age and his memories of the city he loved in his youth.MY ROMAN YEAR - THE NEW MEMOIR FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR - IS AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW

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Bogen bag succesfilmen Call Me by Your Name. Romantisk kærlighedshistorie sat i Norditalien i 1983. Den 17-årige Elio tilbringer sommeren med sin familie i deres hus i Norditalien og forelsker sig hovedkulds i familiens sommergæst, den lidt ældre studerende Oliver. Elio og Oliver udvikler ganske langsomt et forhold. Det bliver en sommer i det smukke italienske landskab, de aldrig glemmer – og som ændrer deres liv for altid. Pressen skrev: »Den smukkeste og mest nuancerede skildring af den bratte, uventede forelskelse.« ****** – Jyllands Posten »En absolut anbefalelsesværdig bog...« – Weekendavisen »Superb ... The beauty of Aciman's writing and the purity of his passions should place this extraordinary first novel within the canon of great romantic love stories for everyone. « - The Washington Post Book World »This novel is hot ... a love letter, an invocation, and something of an epitaph ... An exceptionally beautiful book. « - The New York Times Book Review »The novel is richly, sensuously detailed ... luminous ... Aciman deftly charts a burgeoning relationship that both parties want and fear.« - The Boston Globe »…dyb og sanselig skildring af forelskelsens og begærets berusende skønhed.« – Litteratursiden

Enigma Variations charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether againstthe backdrop of southern Italy, where he develops a crush on his parents cabinetmaker, or a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he'll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men; whether he's on a tennis court in Central Park, or on a New York sidewalk in early spring, his attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire - not for just one person's body but, inevitably, for someone else's aswell. Ahead of every step Paul takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are always ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love lingers. We may not always know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and to others. But sooner or later we discover who we've always known we were.

Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timoth e Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time Oscar(TM) Nominee James Ivory The Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted Screenplay A New York Times BestsellerA USA Today Bestseller A Los Angeles Times BestsellerA Vulture Book Club Pick An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our Time Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Fiction A New York Times Notable Book of the Year - A Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post Best Book of the Year - A New York Magazine "Future Canon" Selection - A Chicago Tribune and Seattle Times (Michael Upchurch's) Favorite Favorite Book of the Year

The novel that inspired the major motion picture. Released in Autumn 2017, the glittering team behind last year's cinematic sensation, A Bigger Splash, brings you a sultry, sensual film of obsession and desire. During a restless summer on the Italian Riviera, a powerful romance blooms between seventeen-year-old Elio and his father's house guest, Oliver. Unrelenting currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire threaten to overwhelm the lovers who at first feign indifference to the charge between them. What grows from the depths of their souls is a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration, and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing they both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.

In the first book of Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, the story of the mysterious and charismatic Justine is told by her lover, an impoverished Irish teacher who has sought refuge across the Mediterranean in Greece. It is a love story, but the real heroine of the book is its setting: the city of Alexandria, with a sky of 'hot nude pearl' and a thousand streets below, crowded, sensual and exotic; a complex and heady mix of elegance and poverty.

Andr Aciman has been hailed as the most exciting fiction writer of the 21st century (New York magazine), a brilliant chronicler of the disconnect...between who we are and who we wish we might have been (Wall Street Journal), and a writer of fiction at its most supremely interesting (Colm T ib n). Now, with his third and most ambitious novel, Aciman delivers an elegant and powerful tale of the wages of assimilation - a moving story of an immigrant's remembered youth and the nearly forgotten costs and sacrifices of becoming an American. It's the fall of 1977, and amid the lovely, leafy streets of Cambridge a young Harvard graduate student, a Jew from Egypt, longs more than anything to become an assimilated American and a professor of literature. He spends his days in a pleasant blur of 17th-century fiction, but when he meets a brash, charismatic Arab cab driver in a Harvard Square caf , everything changes. Nicknamed Kalashnikov - Kalaj for short - for his machine-gun vitriol, the cab driver roars into the student's life with his denunciations of the American obsession with all things jumbo and ersatz - Twinkies, monster television sets, all-you-can-eat buffets - and his outrageous declarations on love and the art of seduction. The student finds it hard to resist his friend's magnetism, and before long he begins to neglect his studies and live a double life: one in the rarefied world of Harvard, the other as an exile with Kalaj on the streets of Cambridge. Together they carouse the bars and caf s around Harvard Square, trade intimate accounts of their love affairs, argue about the American dream, and skinny-dip in Walden Pond. But as final exams loom and Kalaj has his license revoked and is threatened with deportation, the student faces the decision of his life: whether to cling to his dream of New-World assimilation or risk it all to defend his Old-World friend. Harvard Square is a sexually charged and deeply American novel of identity and aspiration at odds. It is also an unforgettable, moving portrait of an unlikely friendship from one of the finest stylists of our time.